31.   North Korea reiterated Saturday it might allow full inspections at a suspect nuclear plant if Washington agreed to a package deal on the nuclear standoff.

32.   North Korea said Thursday that the United States had sent military reinforcements to the Korean peninsula because of the nuclear standoff in the region.

33.   North Korea said Thursday the United States had sent military reinforcements to the Korean peninsula because of the nuclear standoff in the region.

34.   North Korea said Friday it would welcome a visit to Pyongyang by a South Korean opposition leader to help defuse the Korean nuclear standoff.

35.   North Korea warned Saturday that a historic inter-Korean summit this month could be jeopardized if South Korea continued to argue over the nuclear standoff on the divided peninsula.

36.   Peter Tarnoff, the US under-secretary of state for political affairs, arrived in Tokyo on Thursday for talks with Japanese officials on the Korean nuclear standoff.

37.   Tani has visited North Korea several times in the past but the trip would be the first visit by Japanese politicians to seek a solution to the nuclear standoff.

38.   South Korean Foreign Minister Han Sung-Joo headed for the United States to discuss the nuclear standoff.

39.   The government has so far avoided convening NSC meetings apparently for fear that they might increase public anxiety over the nuclear standoff.

40.   The North also used the occasion to present its position at a delicate stage of its tense nuclear standoff with Seoul and Washington.